Old Style Ancient Greek Silver Tetradrachm From Athens. Circa 480-420 BC. Fine Condition With Bankers Test Cuts.

Ancient Coins - Old Style Greek Owl

Greek Athenian Owl Tetradrachm From 480-420 BC!


The Obverse of these popular coins features the Head of Athena facing right, wearing crested helmet. The Reverse shows an Owl standing right, with olive sprig and crescent behind and AOE in front; all within incuse square.

These old style "Owls" were a very popular central currency of the ancient world and thus the design remained unchanged for quite a long period of time. They are one of the most popular ancient coins collected today. During 449-413 B.C a large amount of the coins were minted in part to meet the financing requirements of extravagant building projects such as the Parthenon.

Ancient coins were often chiseled to test the metal. In Athens this testing became official policy. "To deal with [counterfeits], the Athenians passed a law in 375/4 B.C. which provided for a dokimastes or 'tester' to sit near the banking tables in the Agora and in the market of Peiraieus.

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